Woodsrule is seeing what I see. Schools over stepping their area of expertise, area of responsibility. The offense happened off school property. If laws were broken then the local police should be involved, investigating and prosecuting if deemed appropriate. I can't see how any school could be held responsible for anything a student does outside of the school premises, outside of the school jurisdiction. We might as well say that the school was responsible for the accident caused by the high school senior who ran into my truck when they were leaving school.

Maybe the teens involved are guilty, maybe they do deserve some punishment; not arguing that. I am arguing that the school has no right to exact penalties for any deeds perpetrated off the school grounds, in situations where the school is not directly supervising the students. That is a police matter, first and foremost.